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Visitor checklist

Thank you for your interest in being a guest on Research Software Hour. We want to make this a good experience for everyone, thus we outline here what you can expect. This is carefully controlled education and entertainment, you will know exactly what you are getting into in advance and we will have a friendly atmosphere.

There are different ways you can join:

  • Be interviewed as someone working in the field
  • Be a special guest who teaches some topic
  • other?

Before the show

  • How do you want to be credited? Please give name as it will be written and name as it will be written in the schedule
  • Tell us anything in particular you would like us to ask or not ask.
  • Please tell us your preferred pronouns.
  • Can you come up with a clever icebreaker and/or question you want us to ask you?
  • We'll probably ask you what do you know now about scientific computing, that you wish someone had told you when you first started?. Think of an answer, or tell us if you don't want us to ask.
  • We'll arrange a some preparation calls the days before, to both go through the topics and test the tech.
  • We'll probably make a detailed outline of what we will talk about. This is education and entertainment, and we carefully plan for both.
  • We use Jitsi Meet (meet.jit.si) - we know it at least runs in the Chrome web browser well. You'll have one Jitsi session for the camera, and a separate one for audio. We'll go over this in detail during the practice session a few days before.
  • We have community standards - basically, make a good environment.

Privacy and experience

  • Check what is in your camera's background. You might want to clean it up some. Remove everything you can and make sure it looks presentable (but it's up to you).
  • Try to have a relatively quiet location.
  • Tell others in your location that you will be recording - warn them to stay out of the camera's field of view and to not make too much noise.
  • Be aware of private content anywhere on your screen - preferably, close anything you don't need.
  • Light makes a big different for quality (more photos = better quality). Try to not have light behind you. I find that light shining on the wall in front of you, reflecting onto you, works well.
  • A good internet connection also makes huge differences in quality.

Broadcast agreement

Please send us an email, in your own words, indicating that:

  • You understand your voice (+image if so) will be broadcasted on Twitch and published on Youtube.
  • Publishing is non-revocable (the Youtube video will be permanently available)
  • The content will be licensed under CC-BY 4.0.
  • You will follow the Twitch terms of service and good community standards.

Preparation right before the broadcast

  • Plan to connect 30 minutes before to do tech setup. Stream goes live 15 minutes before with title card, and 10 minutes before with our pre-steam discussion beginning.
  • In the preparation session, we will discuss if you are there during the pre-show session or not. But either way we need to set the tech up 30 minutes early.

During the broadcast

  • We find that it's best to keep the discussion going quickly, without any one person talking too long at once.
  • So, we try to speak with pauses, and interrupt each other with questions or comments often. This makes it seem like a discussion, not a lecture. It also relieves the pressure for coming up with what to say.
  • Let us know if you have any specific requests or needs.
  • We post the video to Youtube right after the broadcast - let us know right away if you need us to delay.